K&IM AI Seminar Series:

Tuesday 23 April 2024 12:00-13:00 (UK time)

Join the CILIP KIM Artificial Intelligence webinar series!

Are you curious as to how advances in artificial intelligence are beginning to make an impact on the work of knowledge and information managers in sectors beyond your own?

Welcoming members from CILIP GIG and CILIP K&IM, our speakers will open a window on current applications and developments in machine learning.

We welcome Kelcey Swain, Senior Executive Officer at the Cabinet Office and Andrew Cox, Senior Lecturer at the Information School, University of Sheffield to our Panel. Each will give a short presentation, exploring current themes to kick off wider discussion. What sorts of applications are being tested? What issues are arising? Where do they see the benefits and disbenefits? What is the impact on the KM workforce? What next?

There will be an opportunity to discuss the presentations and also raise those issues which are at the top of your professional agenda as you think about how you are going to work with AI?

We look forward to you joining in our discussion on this fast moving and highly important topic – Register now!

Speakers

Dr Andrew Cox

Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield

After graduating from Aberystwyth with an MSc in Library Studies, Andrew spent a number of years working in development projects around the use of ICT in library contexts, funded by EC, JISC and others.

Andrew completed my PhD at Loughborough in 2006.

Much of his research relates to the information professions and their response to contemporary trends such as artificial intelligence, datafication and managerialism.

Dr Kelcey Swain

Senior Executive Officer, Cabinet Office

Kelcey is a creative technologies and digital humanities expert who works at the Cabinet Office where his expertise is applied to using cutting edge technologies to help manage the archive.

His PhD from Durham is in electroacoustics and digital signal processing, and he has taught audio development and computer science at Bristol, and Keele Universities. His expertise include data science, GIS, digital storytelling, digital humanities, software development, sound art, sound engineering, and image processing.

He has extensive experience working with numerous UKRI-funded projects to design websites, data interfaces, data collection, data management, developing machine learning processing, and creating a range of mapping and digital storytelling material as well as being a patented inventor of a tool for assisting music education in schools.